I used to read Ladens blog from time to time but the amount of vitriol Greg spits out at people with differing views put me off probably for ever. The constant arguments from authority also struck me as being anti science. No wonder he is getting only a handful of comments, if he is lucky, to his blogs these days.

We have enough questioning from scientists against AGW that any pleas to the consensus can be seen to be a logical fallacy. BTW I am a fence sitter on this issue but with each passing day I am viewing the alarmist predictions and arguments from authority as politics and not science.

I love this place, lots of posts on both sides. I am also very fond of Judith Curry’s blog for the same reason.

It’s not right to pick only what you like, but to take all of the evidence…
~ Richard P. Feynman

Allowing all points of view is why WUWT has such heavy traffic. Readers want to hear both sides in a debate. Then they can make an informed decision.

Alarmist blogs are caught in a trap: if they allow all points of view, they will lose the catastrophic global warming debate, because the planet is not supporting their belief. So rather than allow skeptics to freely comment, they heavily censor.

To them, it is the lesser of two evils: better to protect their belief system, than to enlarge their readership. Their belief in CAGW has been woven into their egos, until they are incapable of seeing — or tolerating — any other point of view:

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives”.
~ Leo Tolstoy

When I first started reading climate blogs a little over a year ago, I spent some time observing at RC and several more of the party line blogs listed by Tom Fuller. Once I saw how heavy handed their censorship is, I had no temptation to waste more time there, even though I have always greatly enjoyed seeking out cordial rational discussion and debate with people of diverse, wide ranging views. There simply did not seem to be much value to trying to engage at such places.

I tried to post this at Revkin’s advertisement for the new Tobis blog back in November 2011, but Prof. Revkin felt it was not up to the standards of Dot Earth, and refused to post it. I found this ironic, considering the most objectionable language in my comment was found in the quoted writings of the one and only Michael Tobis.

Echo chamber-
“The site is not for everybody; certainly people who want to argue the question of whether AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is or isn’t a problem will find nothing to engage with on our site.”

Malthusian stench-
“The only way to simplify ourselves out of the present mess is by cutting our population 80%, unfortunately.”
Michael Tobis, January 9, 2009

Execrable Rants-
“It is because the fiunkcg survival of the ficunkg planet is at fciunkg stake. And if we narrowly fkncuig miss pulling this out, it may well end up being your, your own fnikucg personal individual fkcnuig self-satisfied mischief and disrespect for authority that tips the balance. You have a lot of fkucnig nerve saying you are on my “side”.”
Michael Tobis, April, 2011

Nonsensical platitudes-
“…creating a global social contract…”

Narcissistic priggishness-
“I think Curry should STFU, or at least stick to such matters, if any, where she has reason for confidence in what she says.”
Michael Tobis, November, 2011

However, software engineer Tobis has extensive experience and expertise in developing government policy to exterminate 80% of the global population?

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However, software engineer Tobis has extensive experience and expertise in developing government policy to exterminate 80% of the global population?

God help us.

If Tobis is able to convince 80% of the population to think like he does, they’ll self-exterminate. We’ll see how “successful” he is.

Thinking logically is the only thing that keeps humans alive–we don’t have natural instincts, fur coats, or the ability to eat grass or wood to stay alive: we must use our minds and to the degree that we do, we prosper. Separate those who don’t use their mind from those that do, and those that don’t simply self-destruct.

On the “communicate the science” blogs.
Its a wonder of the human mind, that we can be certain we possess the only truth, yet must share or explain this truth only through censorship, evasion & abuse.
Congratulations on nearing a million comments, you are definitely doing things right and proving once again that people will not be told what to think by presumptive authorities.

Tom Fuller is one of the grown-ups in the climate debate. His comments are always well worth thinking about.

And his point about censorship is absolutely vital.

I used to live in Saudi Arabia, Fascinating place, with a fascinating history, intriguing culture, and the most hospitable people on earth.

But I noticed that they had a lot of problems. And those problems were not being fixed because the newspapers and the television news was censored so heavily. Admitting to problems was thought to embarass the royal family, or somebody. So year after year things stumbled along, unadmitted problems never being addressed.

This is a lesson for us. When the government drones start to nibble away at the freedoms of the citizenry (which they do continually, and will continue to do in the future. They can’t help it; that’s what government drones do, like beavers have to gnaw down trees to keep their teeth from growing into their jawbone) we must fight like hell to preserve the freedom of the press.

Nice stats!
I hope you double it this year Anthony ~
Don’t be hesitant to share this site folks. I have been surprised by the number of closet skeptics out there. Being under-informed is not an excuse, it is the norm now ……

Change it >

When do we get another WUWT-TV episode? That was some great stuff to share too.

@D.B. Stealey, you wrote “Alarmist blogs are caught in a trap: if they allow all points of view, they will lose the catastrophic global warming debate, because the planet is not supporting their belief. So rather than allow skeptics to freely comment, they heavily censor.”

Your statement says it correctly. I could not agree more. The problem is that there are enough sheeple that will not see it that way. The US, under the rule of Obama continues its march towards saving the world using my money.

I know I have seen more comments snipped than that. But even then, you know whose comment was snipped as over the top or (rarely) irrelevant, and they can fix it.
Comments that most of us disagree with are normally posted without moderator comment. We can all consider them, although many of us are unmerciful to some of these.

..and received this recant by Al:
Well…did you happen to notice that those prominent scientists who dissent on AGW–most of them are NOT climatologists, but tend to be ohhhh, physicists, biologists, chemists, people who are NOT climatologists. There are a few, to be sure. But not many.

Two relevant paragraphs from the latter: “And in the meantime, we saw Arctic sea ice at record low levels in 2012. West Antarctica and Greenland are melting. It is getting so hot in Australia right now that weather forecasters had to add a new color to the weather maps to indicate temperatures above 54° Celsius—that’s 130° Fahrenheit. The heat wave has literally set fire to Australia. And for me (and astronomers around the world) it’s personal; we almost
lost a major observatory to Australian wildfires over the weekend.”

And…

“So let this be clear: There is no scientific controversy over this. Climate change denial is purely, 100 percent made-up political and corporate-sponsored crap. When the loudest voices are fossil-fuel funded think tanks, when they don’t publish in science journals but instead write error-laden op-eds in partisan venues, when they have to manipulate the data to support their point, then what they’re doing isn’t science.”

At least the Whole Foods CEO isn’t shutting his eyes about it… Unlike some I could name.
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Is this response valid ???

I finally got a broadband connection in Sept. of 2008. Prior to that I hadn’t been paying attention and was quite surprised at what was going on. One of the first papers I found was Stephen McIntyre’s presentation at Ohio State on May 16, 2008 wherein he questions temperature reconstructions.http://climateaudit.files.wordpress.com/2005/09/ohioshort.pdf

With that and some other things I was reading (The WUWT series on How Not To Measure Temperature, being one such) I visited our local university where I had a few contacts. There I picked up beginning texts on physics, chemistry, and biology. I could read at those for a bit, check things, and best of all I had the correct scientific terms to search for selected topics. Being very much both cynical and skeptical I was never on the fence but a month of reading 3+ hours a day of actual physical science material and blogs such as WUWT, CA, and Jonova convinced me I had the right instinct. Jo’s site has a link to a small (16 page) pamphlet called the Skeptic’s Handbook. It is simple and direct. Then there was Al Gore’s movie, or more precisely, all the criticisms of it, the UN’s involvement, and on and on.

Knowing of subs surfacing in the Arctic Ocean – yeah, I’m old enough – now well document on WUWT and elsewhere; and knowing of both hot and cold and wet and dry periods – well, extraordinary claims require extraordinary documentation. CAGW is an extraordinary claim and I haven’t seen the required documentation. Just the opposite.

I don’t know who Al is. Anyway, all that stuff you have presented has been discussed on WUWT. It is not worth anyone’s time to go over it again; 5 or 6 or 7 times is enough. Pick a four letter word beginning with C and ending in P – that describes it.

Ah Tobis. After he gave me a runner-up Golden Horseshoe award for leaking the draft IPCC report (an award for lying, supposedly), I dropped by and engaged Tobis and his commenters. Tobis had only read Dana Nuccitelli’s error-ridden response to what I said about the draft report so I was trying to clue them in.

I ribbed Dana a little but was just correcting his science, and the science of those who popped up to rebut me. That lasted until Tobis refused to publish one of my carefully reasoned responses. His kept insisting that I, like all “deniers,” don’t actually have any grasp of the subject, but am only saying whatever I can think of that sounds plausible enough to mislead the uninformed. (Talk about projection.) My repeatedly kicking Tobis’ ass on substance apparently presented too much of a disjoint with his claims that I had no substance so he just stopped allowing me to respond.

The worst tactic in evidence is the censorship of comments and commenters. The ‘moderators’ of these blogs will cheerfully trash your comments, or delay them so the conversation has moved on by the time they appear, or worst of all, ‘edit’ them.
Yep! I have tried to comment in a none offensive way many times over the years, and they still bounce you. I simply don’t bother anymore = less traffic to their blogs.

I’m happy to get you one closer to that million
I was just reading Andrew Bolts blog
There is an item with:
” A new study by warmist scientists admits the IPCC probably over-estimated predicted
warming by nearly 100 per cent.

‘GLOBAL warming is likely to be less extreme than claimed, researchers said
yesterday. The most likely temperature rise will be 1.9C (3.4F) compared with the
3.5C predicted by the Intergovern­mental Panel on Climate Change. ‘ ”

Someone commented: “So does that mean 97% of scientists can be wrong? ”

I thought that was funny. I think it should be more widely used – so here it is.

Tom Fuller is spot on: A lot of the projected impacts of climate change can be adequately dealt with by adaptation. Just think about it: Humans thrive from the equator to the poles. People survived the Warsaw Ghetto and the Killing Fields of Cambodia. We can have a few degrees of warming.

As to censorship, I guess some bloggers treat their blog as an extension of their lectures at college, and thus treat those who comment as they would undergrad students who ask questions. I think that is inappropriate, but it’s their (unsuccessful) blog.

The survey that purported to show that 97% of climate scientists supported the “consensus” was based on the views of just 77 scientists, far too small a sample to be scientific, and the proposition to which 75 of the 77 assented was merely to the effect that there has been warming during the past 100 years.

Thanks for your comment. That’s what I filtered out of the link OssQss sent me too… Had to read a few times, but it became clear that they were being creative in the survey. OssQss was right, needed to read the questions, they were weak.

The only other recant I couldn’t find was this BS tsunami about 9 of the last 10 years being the warmest on record ? .that can’t be true ???

One of the worst censors is ‘Comment Is Free’ in the Guardian’s Climate Change section. A few years back sceptical comments dominated, but today it’s an echo chamber. I was not moderated but banned…………no less than 8 times, yet I stayed withing the terms of use. All I did was point to contradictory evidence and asked for evidence of claims.

Here is an example of Monbiot in the Guardian making stuff up. I corrected him by pointing him to here, here. I was soon banned. Never mind, things will sort themselves out eventually. ;-)

OT but going out on a limb here and stating that I think Arctic ice extent and volume will return to normal this year and that it will stay that way or continue to increase as we enter slowly into a new cooler period for the next ice age.http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
BTW be on the watch for “adjusments” as the warmist ice sites usually adjust “downwards” in periods like this.

While I have little to complain about in case of WUWT moderation policies, the table at the top is misleading. There is noticeable amount of comments which count as ‘approved’ in it which did not pass the moderation unchanged – either their contents was snipped out completely, partially, or a moderator note may have been added. If moderator’s options were only approve or delete, there would be much more deleted comments – assuming the table covers that statistic, too. So the table does not say much about the actual moderation topic.
And while I don’t remember having anything snipped out by moderators on WUWT, I must say that having moderator’s opinion added to my comment can be also pretty irritating. If a moderator has something to say to my opinion, he should do it the same way as any other person here.

[Perhaps 1 in 60 to 70 gets trimmed. What is added is at the discretion of the Mod.]

And while I don’t remember having anything snipped out by moderators on WUWT, I must say that having moderator’s opinion added to my comment can be also pretty irritating. If a moderator has something to say to my opinion, he should do it the same way as any other person here.

Pro parte mia (and I’ve had the moderators snipe at my comments here rather more than most), I don’t give a tinker’s twitch where the guy sticks in his oar as long as he makes sure to clearly denote that its his piddle on the shrubbery and not mine.

I consider it both efficient and convenient, inasmuch as I don’t have to search among the comments to find that of mine about which the mod is kvetching.

Todays “Skeptic” blogs outnumber warmist blogs for the same reason that free people outnumbered the Nazis in the 1930s. A minority of frenzied activists ranting about their “cause” may claim anything, but they are still a bunch of barking dogs.
The current “greens” yell like barking dogs, they then attract attention among a few more outcast types who crave attention, etc. The current “greens” are like the 1930s Nazis, no one can take them seriously, so they are not considered a threat. But when you are starving you will do anything if the crazy person says he will give you a free meal. The greens fabricate a “crisis” to which they claim to have the “solution” but most people don’t care, why should they? Eventually, the IPCC is created out of the United Nations. No harm in looking at the issue, but the funding just creates more barking dogs. Then a couple misanthropes start showing “info” that supports their cause. Houghton and Hansen for example. They continue to politicize the issue, the media sees them and thinks they can make a buck selling climate horror stories. It’s 100 percent propaganda.
Clueless mainstream politicians get tired of listening to the barking dogs. They try throwing more money at them because they think that will temporarily appease them, thus reducing the noise for a while. However, that is a mistake. Never throw money at any problem, it just increases the size of the problem. Suddenly the Greenshirts/Brownshirts grow to attract 25 percent of the vote, thus attracting more media attention and money from the malcontents, unwise young and desparate voters.
In the 1930s German depression, many people were really starving. Thats how revolutions get traction.
Today we are seeing the death of the AGW movement, but not the end of the Greens. There will never be any end to crazy fanatics and corrupt political bosses, but they will always be wrong. The sane majority will barely notice until its too late, but in todays AGW religion, there are not enough starving people to elect themselves into political power. But the sane majority are noticing the issue, and simply outnumber the fanatics by 10 to 1. Now that the sane pepole have a voice in the “skeptic” blogs, they should not be surprised that the “fanatics” are numerically inferior.
Now, the final step is to stop funding the crazies, stop funding the UN/IPCC, stop voting for corrupt political bosses and bureaucrats
Pull the plug on the IPCC.
Pull the plug on the IPCC
Pull the plug on the IPCC

If you want to see an example of real censorship – post an inconvenient (in relation to the climate change/global warming scam) question. Your question will probably be edited by the loonie left ‘moderators.’ Change it back and it’ll be removed altogether. Argue with the moderators (all warmists) and you’ll be barred from the site, your IP address noted and all future access denied. Seems like they’re worried about something…

The funny thing the skeptic blog is totally dependent on govts continue to push the global warming agenda/climate change agenda, and researches producing poor biased research papers. Once that ends people will hardly visit these sites anymore.

The funny thing [is that] the skeptic blog is totally dependent on govts continue to push the global warming agenda/climate change agenda, and researchers producing poor biased research papers. Once that ends people will hardly visit these sites anymore.

Hardly. The malfeasances of government thugs – elected and appointed – provide an effectively endless resource for the community of online critics attentive to error, willful stupidity, and predatory connivances. The application of due skepticism is just as necessary when it comes to the analysis of massive “Liberal” fascist blivets like the inaugural address recently dumped by our Fraudulence-in-Chief upon the American body politic like a trainload of toxic waste.

The problem for those in the profession of political speech – of whatever statist flavor at which you wince and spit – is that once someone becomes knowledgeable about how their yammer “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind,” that individual cannot un-know the fact, and will henceforth always treat their pronouncements as carcinogenic bilge.

The reason why is deep down inside the eco-cultists and so called climate “scientists”, know they have no value. And without their ideology, they are nothing. Thus, the disgusting result of cAGW,climate change,Mann,Gore,stealing taxpayer dollars,and condeming the poor of the world to more misery. I am a Canuck,so maybe some of the Yanks here can answer this question….Cannot Gore be charged under RICO? Or do the Wahabis of Saudi hold to much sway?

Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

@Mk Urbo : re: Two relevant paragraphs from the latter: “And in the meantime, we saw Arctic sea ice at record low levels in 2012. West Antarctica and Greenland are melting. It is getting so hot in Australia right now that weather forecasters had to add a new color to the weather maps to indicate temperatures above 54° Celsius—that’s 130° Fahrenheit. The heat wave has literally set fire to Australia. And for me (and astronomers around the world) it’s personal; we almost
lost a major observatory to Australian wildfires over the weekend.”
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The new colour added seems to have been an alarmists trick, as it was never needed and has been recanted:
“Yesterday, the bureau’s forecast maps for Sunday and Monday showed a deep purple area over the South Australian outback.

However, those forecasts have been revised today, with forecast temperatures no longer hitting the purple range.”

‘What most of them have in common is the ‘Crossfire’ approach to dealing with disagreement–insults are common and dismissal for lack of scientific credentials even more so.’

Can anyone explain what they all hope to achieve by this tactic?

It doesn’t alter what Mother Nature does one little bit…it doesn’t make the little air molecules jiggle about any faster or slower.. it doesn’t alter ‘Science’ – which cares not a jot for qualifications or status or one’s parental lineage..

So what does it achieve?

My best guess is that some of these blogs are inhabited by those for who ‘Climate Change’ has become a substitute for religion. And that ‘Climate Scientists’ have taken on the very important role of High Priests – interpreting the Word of the Lord. History shows that this has been a very successful way of influencing and controlling the uneducated masses.

Add into that the concept of ‘heresy’ or ‘blasphemy’ and ‘apostasy’….and the need for their to be only One True Faith and the analogues between some medieval religions and today Keepers of the Sacred AGW flame are obvious.

Their mission is not to discuss the science as new data is unearthed and new interpretations formulated. But to ensure that the Old 1990s ideas are kept pure and unsullied by doubt or question or amendment. Their creed is

‘The Science was Settled in 1997. Was then, is now and forever shall be. Amen’

(Inspired by recent unedifying attempts to engage with the ‘Deltoids’ -a far more depressing breed than any of the other similarly named villains from Doctor Who)

My best guess is that some of these [Warmerbruder] blogs are inhabited by those for whom ‘Climate Change’ has become a substitute for religion. And that ‘Climate Scientists’ have taken on the very important role of High Priests – interpreting the Word of the Lord. History shows that this has been a very successful way of influencing and controlling the uneducated masses.

Add into that the concept of ‘heresy’ or ‘blasphemy’ and ‘apostasy’….and the need for their to be only One True Faith and the analogues between some medieval religions and today Keepers of the Sacred AGW flame are obvious.

Their mission is not to discuss the science as new data is unearthed and new interpretations formulated. But to ensure that the Old 1990s ideas are kept pure and unsullied by doubt or question or amendment. Their creed is:

‘The Science was Settled in 1997. Was then, is now and forever shall be. Amen’

After all, we are being pretty damn provocative by not agreeing with them.

Wouldn’t you feel the urge to tear ten shades of hell out of anyone who was as in-your-face offensive to you as we routinely are to them, every time we decline their generous and reasonable cult invitations?

to start with the obvious, the “crossfire” approach (and indeed the whole family of unpleasant, belligerent, pejorative nasty behaviours directed at outsiders) seeks to make the intruder sweat.

People like us can handle it, if not thrive on it, because we’re debaters.

Not everyone is. Not everyone would be comfortable.

In fact, the average person probably looks at the treatment of deniers-in-a-believalist-world and thinks “please don’t let that happen to me.”

The average low-level believalist is also (not to put to fine a point on it) an inarticulate and insecure non-debating non-thinker. So whenever they might be tempted to stray, they think about what happens to doubters and, well, repress the urge.

So my proposal is that the “logic” behind their hyperbolic, almost anaphylactic immune kickback against any denier in their vicinity might be as simple as “pour encourager les autres“.

…the “crossfire” approach (and indeed the whole family of unpleasant, belligerent, pejorative nasty behaviours directed at outsiders) seeks to make the intruder sweat.

People like us can handle it, if not thrive on it, because we’re debaters.

Not everyone is. Not everyone would be comfortable.

In fact, the average person probably looks at the treatment of deniers-in-a-believalist-world and thinks “please don’t let that happen to me.”

The average low-level believalist is also (not to put to fine a point on it) an inarticulate and insecure non-debating non-thinker. So whenever they might be tempted to stray, they think about what happens to doubters and, well, repress the urge.

So my proposal is that the “logic” behind their hyperbolic, almost anaphylactic immune kickback against any denier in their vicinity might be as simple as “pour encourager les autres“.

Well, its certainly encouraged me – to counterattack with all the vitriol at my considerable command, if not necessarily because I’m educated and experienced in scientific method but also because the parochial school nuns conscripted me into debate all through high school, and the Jesuits chivvied me into formal course work in logic as a requirement for matriculation.

I’m genetically lazy. Look up “Sicilian” in the dictionary and there’s no picture. Not because we’re fearful of being identified by the “law enforcement” clowns but simply because nobody could be bothered to show up for the snapshot.

The moment las warmitas began scuttling, blattidiform, in numbers back in the early ’80s, I was reminded delightfully of that great line from the movie version of Cyrano de Bergerac (1950):

CYRANO: Watching you other people making friends – everywhere – as a dog makes friends! I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think: “My friends are of a cleaner breed; here comes – thank God – another enemy!”

After all, we are being pretty damn provocative by not agreeing with them.

I’m sure a part of it is to do with power and helplessness. Many of the defending army of AGW acolytes do not (to me at least) show signs of great personal education or satisfaction with their lives. But they have hitched their emotional resources to what they see as an unstoppable juggernaut and rather relish the sight of it rolling over anyone in its path.

We sometimes forget that the famous picture of the lone protester in Tianamen Square had two people involved. The brave protester himself – and the guy who drove the tank. These guys (and they all all to be male in gender) are perhaps naturally suited to tank-driving?

Wouldn’t you feel the urge to tear ten shades of hell out of anyone who was as in-your-face offensive to you as we routinely are to them, every time we decline their generous and reasonable cult invitations?

If they do suffer from such a response, it tells us a great deal more about the emotional needs of the offerrer than about the intellectual state of the refuser.

‘Show that I am right by joining me…otherwise I’ll punch your head in’

I am going to answer this in full because we have new readers joining WUWT all the time so it is a good idea to help bring them up to speed. That is the reason I always try to answer such questions.
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Mk Urbo says: @ January 26, 2013 at 9:01 pm

I posted comment …
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…Prominent scientists who dissent on AGW–most of them are NOT climatologists, but tend to be ohhhh, physicists, biologists, chemists, people who are NOT climatologists. There are a few, to be sure. But not many.

Rebuttal:
CAGW is not rocket science and is easily understood by chemists, physicists and engineers. People from other disciplines often have very good insights. For example, as an undergrad in chemistry I made a significant contribution to karst geology just because my training was so different. What is really laughable about that statement is ‘ climatologists’ such as Mike Mann do NOT HAVE DEGREES IN CLIMATOLOGY. It is too new a science.
Scientists who dissent:Art Robinson Reponds to Petition Slander The petition includes about 500 meteorologists and climate scientists. The Global Warming Petition has been signed by over 31,000 American scientists.

Employing a disciplined approach of problem identification and root cause analysis honed from decades of dealing with life threatening safety issues in successfully sending astronauts up through Earth’s atmosphere and returning them safely home, the TRCS team concluded that no imminent threat exists from man-made CO2.

……………

A study in 2009 by Doran and Zimmerman showed 97% of climatologists surveyed agreed…

….nine of the ten hottest years measured since 1880 have been in the last decade.

Rebuttal:
The surface temperature record can no longer be trusted because it has been so mangled. For example the realignment of temperature record by Hansen in 1980, 1987, 2007 three graphs That is just the tip of the iceberg. See: my Comment on the accuracy of the temperature record and the Raw temperature graph.

There is a lot more but that will give you an idea of the problem.

Another blog post by the same author links to numerous resources to convince the most sceptical critic of AGW.

GRAPH: Antarctic Sea Ice Average for 1979-200 vs 2011-3012 and 2012-2013 Note that the sea ice is increasing in the Antarctic and decreasing in the Arctic. This is called the bipolar seesaw.

So what does a bipolar seesaw actually indicate? There is a new paper out discussing that.

Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?““We propose that the interval between the “terminal” oscillation of the bipolar seesaw, preceding an interglacial, and its first major reactivation represents a period of minimum extension of ice sheets away from coastlines….Thus, the first major reactivation of the bipolar seesaw would probably constitute an indication that the transition to a glacial state had already taken place.”

It is getting so hot in Australia right now that weather forecasters had to add a new color to the weather maps to indicate temperatures above 54° Celsius—that’s 130° Fahrenheit. The heat wave has literally set fire to Australia. And for me (and astronomers around the world) it’s personal; we almost
lost a major observatory to Australian wildfires over the weekend.”

“So let this be clear: There is no scientific controversy over this. Climate change denial is purely, 100 percent made-up political and corporate-sponsored crap. When the loudest voices are fossil-fuel funded think tanks, when they don’t publish in science journals but instead write error-laden op-eds in partisan venues, when they have to manipulate the data to support their point, then what they’re doing isn’t science.”
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Is this response valid ???

Thank you so very much for your time and effort in writing a response. For the record, your assumptions are correct in that many of us WUWT visitors are not “knee deep” in this info on weekly or monthly basis.

I myself have been fighting the good fight for over ten years in just trying to 1) counter misinformation on the web, and 2) expose the underlining agenda for those with an open mind. I’ve always run back to WUWT to make sure that positions I’m defending are correct and many persons on WUWT have been very kind in support of such efforts.

“Tom Fulller’s excellent essay includes
‘What most of them have in common is the ‘Crossfire’ approach to dealing with disagreement–insults are common and dismissal for lack of scientific credentials even more so.’
Can anyone explain what they all hope to achieve by this tactic?”

They are collectivist, like participants at, for instance, a Labor Union rally they try to scream down the opposition. That’s why they always argue with the “97%”, the “consensus”, general argumentum ad populum over and over and over again, and never actually argument scientifically.

I have asked warmists dozens of time to bring evidence for the claimed positive water vapor feedback – I never even got an evasive answer let alone a factual one. The question makes them run away because they don’t understand the tenets of the CO2AGW theory themselves and are probably baffled that someone asks about WATER.

“I must say that having moderator’s opinion added to my comment can be also pretty irritating. If a moderator has something to say to my opinion, he should do it the same way as any other person here.”

Exactly right. If I have one quibble, that is it. Mods should never insert their personal opinions into someone else’s comment, unless it is to point out why a post is being snipped or deleted. They don’t do it very often, and only one or two moderators are guilty of that breach of the Moderator’s Rules. Moderators have their own separate screen names, and they should post their opinions using those separate identities.

That said, WUWT has gone from zero to 1 million reader comments, and ~138 million unique views, in only six years! That is an astonishing accomplishment by Anthony Watts. Clearly, he is doing something right, and he is filling a need that is not being met by other blogs.

I reckon the kind of “catechism” you’ve provided is valuable. (Wouldn’t others agree?) I’ve often wondered if there’s a “permalink” (preferably a whole site) with that myth/mythbusting format, cheesy as it might at first appear.

Given that we’re, you know, skeptics and that we’re on the side of science, why don’t we have our own SkepticalScience? (Minus the stalinist comment disappearances, obviously.)

Well…did you happen to notice that those prominent scientists who dissent on AGW–most of them are NOT climatologists, but tend to be ohhhh, physicists, biologists, chemists, people who are NOT climatologists. There are a few, to be sure. But not many.

Your argument would have more substance if you could show that there is something absolutely uniquely different about the new science of ‘climatology’ that sets it completely apart from the established disciplines of physics and chemistry and biology and geology and statistics and all the rest. And that there is a widely accepted qualification in the subject that can differentiate a true ‘climatologist’ from the common herd.

Can you do either of those things? If not, there is little force to this oft-quoted, but rarely justified position.

Footnote: I note en passant that few of the critics of the idea of homeopathy are practicing in that field either. But I don’t take that observation as reason to believe in the homeopathic theory. A decent theory has to prove itself against criticism from wherever and whoever it comes. Not just from its self-declared adherents.

Its not me Latimer – I was bringing a discussion over from another website in hopes of gaining some rebuttals to such comments. I agree with your point and G Combs makes other rebukes as well. I understand that many points have been beat to death amongst those of you that spend significant time in debate of the subject, but there are always recent starting points of discussion and new people wrapping their hands around the subject.

In this case, there have been many new stories generated off Obama’s inauguration speech which contained some pro-AGW/warming content. The alarmists are out [semi] fresh trying to generate some momentum from this event and IMHO, its worth re-defending.

Another reason skeptic sites get more traffic is that they all seem to have a sense of humour. The warmist sites seem to be populated by sour ranters whose idea of a merry quip is to call someone who disagrees with them a cockroach.
And yes, to have one’s post edited in such a way that it amounts to a misquote is most unsettling. Although, in my case, it is even worse if they quote me accurately.

If the science and consensus is on their side, why the need to censor??? Sceptical comments could easily be trashed and shown to be nonsense???

I think I have one reason why. A couple of years back a Warmist at the Guardian was convinced that c02 by itself could cause dangerous warming. She challenged sceptics to produce peer reviewed evidence. I pointed her to the peer reviewed evidence as well as the IPCC stating that water vapour was a bigger greenhouse gas. She had made lots of comments prior to my comments but nothing after. Was she converted? Maybe not but she wasn’t so damned sure after that.

JenniferAbel – Guardian
“Carbon dioxide alone would not cause dangerous warming? Where does that information come from? Carbon dioxide by itself was sufficient to cause the runaway greenhouse effect on the planet Venus, and the laws of physics work the same way here.”Link.

This place may not be as bad as some others, but it is no paragon of free expression.

A moderator squashed a comment I made because it demeaned, as he claimed, the subject of the comment.

When I sent him an almost verbatim copy of the remark, which was perfectly innocuous, he claimed that what I sent him was substantially different from the original, which was not true; and since it was a one-line comment, it would have been hard to mis-remember.

Climate science is an emerging discipline, very much as Geology was at the end of the 18th Century, with its battle between the Catastrophists and Uniformitarians. There is a similar tension today between the Climate Catastrophists, basing their beliefs on an all controlling deity (CO2) and the Climate Realists (Uniformitarians), albeit with a reversal of the arrow of time. Catastrophists seem to believe that measurements over the short term in the present is the key to catastrophe in the future whilst realists see the past as the key to the present and the future.

Riiight. How many comments are deleted after the fact on this site? LOADS.

REPLY: Well, you are certainly welcome to define that with facts. Yes some commenters are not approved, once we discover that the poster is using fake email addresses. We get a few of those. The policy is that commenters must have a functioning email address, if they don’t they don’t get posting privilege, simple as that.

At Taminos blog, the amusingly named ‘Open Mind’, they have a thread running claiming that the recent hot temperatures in Australia were proof positive of CAGW,

I just posted links to the actual Governments BOM figures showing nothing unusual in temperatures there over the last 3 and 12 months.

I also posted a BOM link to show that the much touted (on certain blogs) ‘permanent drought’ situation of a few years ago had completely disappeared.

He just eliminated the post, so I sent him this comment which I knew he would censor.

“Ho Ho Ho

Can’t stand someone just posting the facts ehh Tamino?

Kind of interferes with yours and the ‘Teams’ attempts to retain control of the agenda and story.

Unfortunately for you and the rest of your ‘crew’, you can only censor your own pathetically small (and getting smaller) area.

Very little traffic and comments on RC now. Just the faithfull remain!)

Well you lost control of the agenda sometime ago and now reality has caught up with you. You are now starting to see some scientists raising their heads up and suggesting possible other things than CO2 for the short term warming.

The unspoken or implied threats from the climate clique are starting to lose their power and potency a la Lance Armstrong and his clique.

It’s only going to get worse. There is no warming on the horizon and the models will fall out of their error bands and be falsified. New ones could be constructed but what the heck can they show that will put the C in CAGW and yet still match the data?

Nope, you had better start edging towards the life rafts. I see Hansen has been forced out of his bunker and agreed there is a pause in GW.

Who will be the first amongst the clique to declare against CAGW and throw the rest under the bus? It is the right play after all.

Well continue to talk to your acolytes and true believers, you can ignore reality for a while in your little bunker especially if you don’t let anyone but people of true faith in.

Remind you of anything around about 1945? That worked out well didn’t it?

“A lot of the projected impacts of climate change can be adequately dealt with by adaptation. Just think about it: Humans thrive from the equator to the poles. People survived the Warsaw Ghetto and the Killing Fields of Cambodia. We can have a few degrees of warming.”

Absolutely right you are. And I am sure you will agree on the following;

It is much easier to adapt to, say, 1.5 degrees of warming, than adapting to trying to do all transportation services in your society without using fossile fuels.

If everyone in Norway started to charge all their government sponsored electric car batteries at night, where would the energy come from? Probalbly imported from a “foreign” coal power-plant.

The other ‘dirty little secret’ that Mr Gore neglects is that his hero, in fact, a good portion of the pro-AGW crowd of Scientists, are not ‘climatologists’ either. Dr Mann, for instance, is not a ‘climatologist’. I’m not sure why an Atmospheric Physicist’s opinion on the matter would be less ‘valid’ (or subject to immediate dismissal). Physics is a very broad subject and is a discipline that, once trained in, the ‘physicist’ can apply his training to the ‘climate’ pretty easily,just like a ‘physicist’ can apply his training to ‘rocket science’, or things as mundane as golf or baseball.

While I have little to complain about in case of WUWT moderation policies, the table at the top is misleading. There is noticeable amount of comments which count as ‘approved’ in it which did not pass the moderation unchanged – either their contents was snipped out completely, partially, or a moderator note may have been added. If moderator’s options were only approve or delete, there would be much more deleted comments – assuming the table covers that statistic, too. So the table does not say much about the actual moderation topic.
And while I don’t remember having anything snipped out by moderators on WUWT, I must say that having moderator’s opinion added to my comment can be also pretty irritating. If a moderator has something to say to my opinion, he should do it the same way as any other person here.

I speak as a person who has had comments ‘snipped’ on WUWT and who was given a ’24 hour time out’ from WUWT during the past week.

I strongly disagree with your post.

During my ‘punishment’ of a ‘time out’ a post appeared which I (mis)understood to be an attempt to lever wider any rift between me and the owner of this blog. This is an extract from my reply to that.

In my opinion, the success of WUWT results from its exceptional quality which is provided by the Moderation Policy (imposed by Anthony Watts), the exceptional standard of the Moderators (appointed by Anthony Watts), and their skill at applying the Moderation Policy (overseen by Anthony Watts).

Many views are openly expressed on WUWT. People who adhere to widely different political, philosophical and religious beliefs and opinions contribute and interact on WUWT. And this (perhaps unique on the web) variety is the great strength of WUWT.

That variety would not and could not exist without the superb moderation on WUWT.

In regard to moderation, WUWT is still much better than any green activist site I have ever seen. This goes without saying. But this doesn’t mean that WUWT is free of any problems. There is an obviously disproportional amount of free play allowed to a couple of pet posters (Leif and Willis). They are given a license to insult, while their opponents’ answers are snipped, even if they are no more than mildly ironic. When Anthony Watts talks about “being out of line,” he draws very different lines for his personal favorites and for others. This is censorship.

REPLY: Your concerns are noted, but also not fully aware. Both Leif and Willis have have comments removed. Willis also has had some posting privileges revoked, and he can no longer post new stories at will, but they must be approved by me. You have a long history here of not liking these two people, who sometimes don’t suffer fools gladly and occasionally aggravate other commenters. I’m just as guilty of that. That said, if you can find a better place with the level of discourse we have, you are certainly welcome to go there. – Anthony

“Skeptical” blogs are more popular because because there is no need to be consistent, correct, informed or coherent. Try posting a comment at Real Climate. You feel like a dill, because you know that comment will be read by people who actually understand stuff. Meanwhile at WUWT you can watch an endless succession of wrong arguments paraded endlessly.

So it is good that there are “skeptical” blogs where everyone can feel comfortable in their ignorance, and happily push their prejudices.

Thanks Anthony, for continuing the tradition of first, John Daly, then Steve McIntyre. You then expanded that to new heights, and now there are quite a few excellent blogs — all without feeding off the public trough. That’s the definition of true “grass-roots”.

The warmers are amazed, angry, resentful and in full denial mode (ironic, eh?).

The AGW blogs dare not allow open discussion. Their whole theory would be refuted in detail on their own propaganda sites, and the cause would suffer. It bears repeating: their fundamental purpose is not science, but ideological. They seek to make science serve their beliefs.

Over the last 20 years the IPCC has persuaded Government’s to part with upwards of £100m in a vain attempt to identify the human signal of Global Warming and they have failed. The war for sanity being waged against them is in the main being done by people on the internet.
Thanks to the “Information Highway” in general and WUWT in particular, we have access to information and scientists otherwise denied us by the msm.
As stated on Bishop Hill a few weeks ago it is the blogosphere that is destroying AGW….people who are extremely successful in their own field apply the same principles, request scientific research papers, mull them over, study the fine print and pronounce them to be flawed and unnaceptable.
Thanks for everything Athony….keep up the good work.

Over the years I have been corrected quite a number of times by fellow commenters at this site, and it usually is done in a polite, helpful, and often humorous manner. I wind up better educated. Some urban myth (or rural, or suburban,) which I didn’t even know I held as a truth is pointed out, and I become less ignorant. In other words, this site gives you the sensation of uplift.

Compare that to how you feel after commenting on an Alarmist site. There you quite often are either told to STFU or spattered by slung mud (or worse,) or you are simply “disappeared.” One doesn’t depart with a sensation of uplift.

I now only occasionally visit Alarmist sites, mostly out of morbid fascination. I also do it because I was brought up to see both sides of an issue, even when one side is obviously riddled with errors.

One item on Alarmist sites that always intrigues me is a “How To Reply To Skeptics” feature that incarnates in many places. It often contains links to refuted and debunked papers. I think they should be re-titled, “How Not To Think For Yourself.” However it is worthwhile to glance over these prepackaged replies, because you then recognize you have heard them before when talking with certain Alarmists. Then, though they have their reply ready for you, you have your re-reply ready for them.

It is also really fun to say, “Oh, you studied that Responses-To-Skeptics thing over at the Skeptical Science site, didn’t you?” I don’t know why this should make Alarmists look nervous and guilty, but it does.

Is this response valid ???
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There have been many fine responses to your question. I would add that the response to you by "Al" at Breitbart.com is a great example of lying by omission and also say that logical fallacies are often employed by propagandists, like Al, to bend the truth.

Facts are not truth. Facts are merely facets of the diamond of truth.
If someone installs a new rain gauge in their back yard and upon first use declares “I just measured the greatest rainfall ever recorded at this location”, would you be inclined to build an ark?

iskoob said “Wouldn’t you feel the urge to tear ten shades of hell out of anyone who was as in-your-face offensive to you as we routinely are to them, every time we decline their generous and reasonable cult invitations?”

I don’t think that characterization is universal. There are lots of people posting at the catastrophe blogs who believe that lukewarmers are just one argument away from belief in proactive action based on a CO2 / atmospheric commons. They also are fully aware of Tom Fullers argument that he expresses in the link above which is that problems like a few degrees of change in the global average temperature are easy to sort out especially compared to problems like totalitarian regimes or their admirers and imitators in the nominally democratic world.

While they correctly point out that there is no market incentive or large scale technology to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere (should that be needed), they fail to point out the vast number of astoundingly difficult problems solved by technology without market incentives (albeit many coming from government-funded basic research). The cult that they offer is in one word: hopelessness. Thus it is not the least bit persuasive to anyone with a modicum of knowledge and optimism for the future. They know that we know that. They must continually censor optimistic data or results and promote the “evidence” for pessimism and oversell it many times over. That is not easy without occasionally lashing out, but lashing out is not universal or even very prevalent. Mostly they strike me as saddened that I won’t join them.

One of the reasons I’m a skeptic is that in the early days when the climate wars had just started, I was curious about the subject so RealClimate is where I started with no real preconceptions of which side was *right* or not. Well after posting (mostly lurking) there for a week, I noticed quite a bit of censorship and lots of righteous indignation. Then I found ClimateAudit following most of the original Hockey Stick destruction by reading that site.

Since credentials are a part of this current discourse, lay readers of WUWT need to be clear about something – “Climatology” is not a “science”. Nor is ecology, psychology, epizootiology (a personal favourite of mine, for academic reasons ;), scientology or epistemology. “-ologies” are blended disciplines that encompass a wide range of scientific specializations. To be called a climatologist, or any other “-ologist” is to speak only to a widely diverse but related catalog of subject matter with which one may have some specific, and some generalized expertise. Michael Mann is no more, or less, a climatologist, than I, as a biologist, am. Like “Environmental Science” degrees, Climatology degrees and titles, are a priori constructs of generalized knowledge, with no particular or specific expertise. The expertise comes from in-depth exposure and experience in a science, physics and chemistry, primarily. Climatologists, per se can’t speak to the outcomes of climatology – that is for the expertise in the other “-ologies” to ascertain.

Therefore, referencing someone’s credentials by calling them a “climatologist” is a reference to authority, not to the fact of the breadth, or lack of it, of their expertise in the subject. It’s a strawman argument. – don’t fall for it .

Quote above: “The Science was Settled in 1997. Was then, is now and forever shall be. Amen”

I disagree. The catastrophists will eagerly embrace any new catastrophic theory without any backward glance at their own theories which preceded it and contradict it. One case in point is the theory that Arctic amplification would lead to increased east/west temperature gradients and a stronger polar jet. The stronger polar jet would enhance lower latitude warming leading to warmer results in climate models. That theory was prevalent up to around 2005.

The new theory is that decreased north/south temperatures gradients are leading to a weaker polar jet with deeper meridional incursions which will “cause” superstorms like Sandy. Like all such myopic theories it has theoretical appeal. But fundamentally it is a pretty clear example of mixing up cause and effect. The meridional flow is caused by weather (primarily driven by solar factors) and the persistent meridional flows are what cause the average decreased gradient along with decreased sea ice in places like the Barents Sea.

Well…did you happen to notice that those prominent scientists who dissent on AGW–most of them are NOT climatologists, but tend to be ohhhh, physicists, biologists, chemists, people who are NOT climatologists. There are a few, to be sure. But not many.

And Michael Mann has degrees in physics and geology but no degree in “climatology”.

(I’m sad to report Mr. Mann is a geologist, but he’s not honest like most other geologists I know–being one myself, mind you.)

So this “Al” person is misrepresenting the whole credentials issue, unless he automatically considers geologists to be akin to climatologists. And most geologists I know haven’t been hoodwinked by this CAGW garbage–they’re too honest to be bought whereas Michael Mann is a notable and notorious exception, a traitor to geologists everywhere.

Agree with “Imdying” above. Its ironic, but the fact is as that AGW is found not be happening no one will be interested in climate anymore. This means that ALL climate related sites will probably vanish in the next 10 years (expect weather sites). WUWT and other skeptic/denier sites rely on the crazy AGW or warmista sites keeping up the lies, adjustments and vitriol LOL

Well…did you happen to notice that those prominent scientists who dissent on AGW–most of them are NOT climatologists, but tend to be ohhhh, physicists, biologists, chemists, people who are NOT climatologists. There are a few, to be sure. But not many.

The guy guilty of setting of the scare is non other than the astronomer / physicist Dr. James Hansen. Then [there is] the physics / geologist Dr. Michael Mann. Need I go on???

Aren’t Judith Curry, John Christie, Roy Spencer, Richard Lindzen and Bob Carter decently-respected climate scientists? That’s just the first ones off the top of my head. Doesn’t Judith Curry’s own trajectory, with the fall from grace, expulsion from the inner circle because of her willingness to countenance skepticism etc, enough on its own to address this whole assertion that non-climate scientists are the ones who question climate science? And then crunch grant numbers, connect the dots, identify the gravy train and voila. You don’t even need a conspiracy for The Team to operate; THIS model would predict what we see even if only on a level of the unconscious in each separate climate science ‘worker.’ No alarm = no gig. Or far fewer of them anyway. Not to mention that the average climate scientist’s sex appeal went from zero to hero level once they started pressing the panic button.

But Connolley’s Stoat link directs one to a WUWT webcitation which clearly displays the length Watts went to before unwelcoming Connolley.
In stark contrast Gavin Schmidt et al have in fact (frequently) blatantly banned people in thread midstream for simply bringing up some mild challenge. Worse yet Gavin has edited posts to change their meaning, blocked follow up and allowed his minions to ridicule the blocked
poster by falsely casting them as having ran away confused and defeated.
IMO Anthony had been far too patient with the likes of Connolley but made it clear there is no comparison between WUWT moderating and the real censors of debate.
Romm, Schmidt and company are the low life offenders of the worst kind and Connolley’s disinformation is more proof he has earned deletion, omission and prohibition.

REPLY: Hey Connolley, read the first paragraph before you say “not one”. I’m really growing weary of your condescension. Since you think we are all “stupid”, as you stated publicly, why not go back to your Stoat blog and rant there. I don’t disagree with your explanation, but saying “not one of the “skeptics” here had the slightest idea what the effect was” is a condescending assumption on your part, and is dead wrong. – Anthony
REPLY: This is just another case of the “Connolley is superior and we are all stupid” mindset he holds. Apparently he missed my introduction about frost mitigation when he lumped me and everyone into “you’ve all missed it”. What a plonker of a comment. – Anthony
Luther Wu says:
April 30, 2012 at 7:59 am
Connelly is here?
William, whatever happened with you taking your toys and running home… never to return?

[Moderator’s Note: I don’t believe he ever said that. Please keep the Connolley bashing to a minimum and engage him with substance. -REP]
wmconnolley says:
April 30, 2012 at 8:59 am
> [Moderator’s Note: I don’t believe he ever said that. Please keep the Connolley bashing to a minimum and engage him with substance. -REP]

You mean stuff like “What a plonker of a comment.”? You’ll need to check in with the organ grinder, I think :-)

[Reply: After that “organ grinder” comment, I would be surprised if in future the moderator goes out of his way to defend Mr Connolley. ~dbs, mod.]

Indeed, you didn’t formally ask a question at all. But I think the question you meant to ask was: “WMC, so you made the article better, unlike RW who has never helped at all; but why didn’t you make it perfect?” Which is self-answering really.

REPLY: And the answer is… after the black marks you’ve given Wikipedia for your arrogant behavior there, many people don’t want to participate any more due to the bullying that you and a few others display there on the climate issue. The fact is that with many (but not all) climate articles, there aren’t stable references from one day to the next because there is so much tinkering going on. I think I speak for many in saying that we’d feel the climate articles would be more trustworthy if you weren’t involved. -Anthony

wmconnolley says:
April 30, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Anthony> many people don’t want to participate any more

What do you mean, “any more”? You never have; and I doubt any of the folks here have. You’d rather sit on the sidelines carping, and inventing excuses for not making things better.

> due to the bullying that you and a few others display there on the climate issue.

Excuses, excuses.

> The fact is that with many (but not all) climate articles, there aren’t stable references from one day to the next because there is so much tinkering going on.

REPLY: I’ve never contributed? Really, you should learn to research before making such challenges. I submitted the original page on the Climate Reference Network to Wikipedia in April 2008 after my invited visit to NCDC. I actually did it from my hotel room in Asheville because no page existed on it and I thought there should be one after meeting with NCDC staff (who I was impressed with BTW for that project division). So I took the description from NCDC and posted it along with the appropriate title and cites. It was then promptly deleted by one of the pseudonym named climate bullies you cavort with. My crime was using my own name….because well, we just can’t have that awful Watts person submitting to Wikipedia. Only the anointed get to touch the holy Wiki climate reference book it seems, mere unclean mortals like myself get their contributions deleted wholesale. So I don’t bother anymore. I know others that have been turned off by the bullying as well.

Ah, the famous WMC signature line “You’re making that up.”, now used on almost any blog entry where you are challenged. Just look at any talk page and note the change history for articles on climate for Wikipedia and it is easy to see how much change goes on from day to day. There’s a lot of tinkering. Though from your world view it seems you don’t believe so. A few examples of what the climate bullies of Wikipedia have had happen to them:

Of course since you’ve never taken any responsibility for your behavior, I doubt you’ll do so now. You’ll just act like Mike Mann does and say its everyone else’s problem but yours.

Look, we don’t like each other, and I doubt we ever will. You think I’m stupid (along with everyone else here) and have said so publicly, I think you are a condescending bully. By that premise, why would we bother to even try anymore at Wikipedia (to make it better – your words) when you claim we are too stupid to contribute anything? So let’s make it simple, let’s not waste each other’s time here anymore. You have Stoat, I have WUWT. Your comments really aren’t welcome here because you’ve been so disruptive that the threads become mostly about you, rather than the topic. So, I suggest you stick to Stoat, because you aren’t winning any converts here with your style. – Anthony
wmconnolley says:
April 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
[…] > Look, we don’t like each other, and I doubt we ever will. You think I’m stupid (along with everyone else here)

No, not really. “Unthinking” would be closer.

> So let’s make it simple, let’s not waste each other’s time here anymore. You have Stoat, I have WUWT. Your comments really aren’t welcome here…

I’m not here to be liked. I’m here to help educate your people who (from the comments in this thread, I think you cannot but agree) are in need of help. so if you’re formally banning me, you need to actually say so (but then you can forget all about the “no censorship” claims).

REPLY: And there you go, making stuff up. Do you see “formally banning” (your words) anywhere? How about a citation? I suggest that your presence here is a huge waste of everyone’s time, because due to your baggage, and your particular style of condescension, you are not well received. Further, you can’t even fess up to your own posts on Stoat, much less your failings on Wikipedia where you were in fact demoted.. You write a Stoat post about how stupid we are, citing Policy Lass and now to save face it’s “unthinking”. Mr. Connolley, your actions here (and elsewhere) personify the main reason climate science is failing in its message, and therefore I suggest your time is wasted. Though if you want to continue to waste time, be my guest. However, as before, you’ll get an extra level of moderation.

Here’s the Wiki history page for “global warming”http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_warming&action=history

P.S.Linking to other web pages in your name – deleted. Choose Stoat for your name link, or leave it blank, you are not Grumbine.
P.P.S. For a real eye opener, see this Wikipedia page about Connolley and what they think about him and what actions have been taken

Anthony, Wikipedia, as loose some of it’s information is, will not even have William M. Connolley spewing his bad science information laced with insults…. so why is he here? For enlightenment to see how bad AGW badness can get? To have yourself and a multiple of readers and commenters, now included me, insulted right and left because William M. Connolley thinks he is knowledgeable in science and no one else here is? Seems you’ve got a hard decision to make.

William M. Connolley, I gave you your chance in my last comment to be civil and you refused it, insulting again. I’m not going to sit here and play YOUR game. Mods— please play me some leeway in the near future with this jerk.

wmconnolley says:
May 1, 2012 at 1:19 am
[…..] In this case it looks like AW may have erred. Wiki wins again!

REPLY: Actually we both erred, but you won’t admit your error.

1. Mr. Connolley erred in claiming I’ve never contributed to Wikipedia.
[ >What do you mean, “any more”? You never have; and I doubt any of the folks here have. You’d rather sit on the sidelines carping, and inventing excuses for not making things better.]

To paraphease his favorite line, he “made that up”.

2. I erred in not checking again after getting the “speedy deletion” notice, because it caused me to be disgusted with the entire Wikipedia process. Why participate if one person’s opinion can trigger a deletion? Given the behavior problems there, I didn’t bother to even contest it. Why waste my time with anonymous cowards with an agenda?

I think this admonishment from Wikipedia sums up your behavior there quite well, as well as my (and others) reticence for active participation:

William M. Connolley previously sanctioned and desysopped

8.1) In the Abd-William M. Connolley arbitration case (July–September 2009), William M. Connolley was found to have misused his admin tools while involved. As a result, he lost administrator permissions, and was admonished and prohibited from interacting with User:Abd. Prior to that, he was sanctioned in Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute (2005, revert parole – which was later overturned by the Committee here) and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Geogre-William M. Connolley (2008, restricted from administrative actions relating to Giano II). He was also the subject of RFC’s regarding his conduct: RfC 1 (2005) and RfC 2 (2008). The 2008 RFC was closed as improperly certified.

Passed 6 to 0 with 2 abstentions, 14:10, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

William M. Connolley has been uncivil and antagonistic

8.2) William M. Connolley has been uncivil and antagonistic to editors within the topic area, and toward administrators enforcing the community probation. (Selection of representative examples:[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] [17][18][19] [20] )

This uncivil and antagonistic behaviour has included refactoring of talk page comments by other users,(examples:[21][22][23] ) to the point that he was formally prohibited from doing so. In the notice advising him that a consensus of 7 administrators had prohibited his refactoring of talk page posts, he inserted commentary within the post of the administrator leaving the notice on his talk page.[24]] For this action, he was blocked for 48 hours; had the block extended to 4 days with talk page editing disabled due to continuing insertions into the posts of other users on his talk page; had his block reset to the original conditions; then was blocked indefinitely with talk page editing disabled when he again inserted comments into the posts of others on his talk page.[25] After extensive discussion at Administrator noticeboard/Incidents, the interpretation of consensus was that the Climate Change general sanctions did not extend to the actions of editors on their own talk pages, and the block was lifted.

Passed 8 to 0, 14:10, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

William M. Connolley’s edits to biographies of living persons

8.5) William M. Connolley has focused a substantial portion of his editing in the Climate change topic area on biographical articles about living persons who hold views opposed to his own with respect to the reality and significance of anthropogenic global warming, in a fashion suggesting that he does not always approach such articles with an appropriately neutral and disinterested point of view.

Passed 7 to 1, 14:10, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

So, after viewing what you are attempting to do with your own blog and interactions here, careful personal consideration, and discussions with other moderators about your behavior at WUWT, it has been decided that like Wikipedia, after 367 Connolley comments and responses, you have been dis-invited from further commentary here. The reason is that you have summarily and regularly violated WUWT policy. While on one hand you have made some valid points, on the other, your behavior here (with follow up taunting on your blog) is serially mendacious, disruptive, dismissive, insulting, and condescending, and as I’ve pointed out the threads Mr. Connolley visits get hijacked by his interaction, making them about him and his taunts. In essence, as you’ve demonstrated on Wikipedia, your participation here is not in good faith either.

To quote WOPR: “The only winning move is not to play.” This is how I feel about Wikipedia and your participation there, and after weighing all the factors, and your participation here. We won’t be playing Mr. Connelley’s war games here anymore. – Anthony Watts

First of all congratulations to Anthony and the team for running an interesting and knowledgable website! Is there a prize for the person that submits the one millionth comment; how about a snow-shovel?
The impression I get from the warmists is that when they make some prediction about climate, they are trying to convince themselves as much as everyone else!

Tucci78 says:
January 27, 2013 at 3:40 am
… Hardly. The malfeasances of government thugs – elected and appointed – provide an effectively endless resource for the community of online critics attentive to error, willful stupidity, and predatory connivances….
The problem for those in the profession of political speech… is that once someone becomes knowledgeable… that individual cannot un-know the fact, and will henceforth always treat their pronouncements as carcinogenic bilge.
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Colorfully put but very true. Once you figure out you are being lied to by politicians and the media you will never trust either source again. It is the main reason I register as an Independent and if I doubt or can stand both candidates I then try to replace the big hog with the little piggy figuring he can not do quite as much damage.

Limiting damage seems to be the best we can hope for since we seem to have the choice between fascist/corporatism or totalitarian in present day governments. Both of course are run by the same set of thugs.

I’ll second your Wiki comment. I fought the editing on that site for years with help from WUWT members to no avail. I did manage to get banned by William Connolley for a year or so, until Wiki purged him for bias editing and overreach.

This man is indirectly responsible for millions of dollars in property losses and dozen of lost lives and should be fired from any job related to structural changes in Australia and is nomination withdrawn forthwith

Agree with “Imdying” above….
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Actually I think, if handle correctly, you might see WUWT hanging around as a place where new science is discussed. WUWT is not just about CAGW but other interesting stuff.

I just quit trying to engage in debate at Open Mind and RC. I was polite in my posts, but offered counter arguments to the discussions. These comments usually just disappeared while the “faithful” continued to fawn over the hosts and bask in their own self righteousness and pompousness. I do not go to those sites any more. At least here I can express my thoughts and engage in civil discussion of the facts.

Since the study of climate is a multidisciplinary field the critism of specialists in related fields is both appropriate and necessary. The rampant misuse of statistical methods being a prime example.

Did you mean “criticism by specialists”, because there’s plenty of criticism of specialists in related fields. Meaning criticism directed at the specialists. Just didn’t want to misunderstand what you were saying.

As stated on Bishop Hill a few weeks ago it is the blogosphere that is destroying AGW
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That is why they do not allow open discussion at the warmer blogs; it threatens their cause.

WUWT will live on in one form or another after the Climatology Farce fades away, the old main stream media, the science journals and TV shows have blown their cover.
Now exposed as willing to mislead for their cause, they are doomed to fade into obscurity, their leaping onto the CAGW bandwagon is now evident to all, whether thro incompetence or agenda does not matter.They can not be trusted to do the job they promised.
People have withdrawn payment, hence the collapsing subscription rates.
So a medium like this blog will thrive, wether thro subscription or the voluntary donations of participants.
In what other medium can you leap right in and argue that a subject is wrong, idiotic or plain nuts and then have smarter people point out the error of your conceptions?
Sure beats screaming at the TV or wanting your money back after buying a magazine.
Trust but verify, is more than an empty motto.
So save science; make a donation to encourage WUWT to continue.

Far as the traffic question, where do I go the see how much Ladens traffic spiked when WUWT posted the “Should Anthony Sue?” question?
As I suspect these types of blogs will launch uglier and more personal attacks on Anthony, merely to boost their minuscule traffic in the near future.
For unlike WUWT they do have pay Masters, who are seeing a diminishing rate of return on their dollar.

I don’t object to the concept of censorship per se. Who hasn’t tried to read comments at a mainstream site like CNN, WP, WSJ and thought, this is a total waste of my time? It’s like a teenage flame war between Windows/Mac iOS/Android. Not very interesting.

However the execution of censoring is always what causes the problems. I have no doubt that most people enter this with an “even hand” mentality, but it just never seems to work out. Outright bias eventually flows from subconscious bias, and it never seems to recover.

RC is always a case in point. They were posting all my first newbie stuff, and over time my pass rate fell below 50%, I felt unwelcome, and now post infrequently, although I have learned how to properly phrase posts so that 2/3 get through the randomized emotional filter employed there.

You can make a judgment from what they allow through, and what they reject, and it is certainly biased. It’s their right to run the site as they wish. People who respond with some pretty abusive stuff are given effective real time posting access, while I have to wait hours for moderated responses to get through. So be it.

My WTF moment over there occurred when the Himalaya 2035 melt tiff was going on. There was an “it was an innocent mistake” RC post up, and I posted links to Google cached pages showing the NASA website had an attribution page up, and NASA had just disappeared it the previous day, saying the Himalaya glaciers would melt by 2030, 5 years earlier! I even reposted it twice because I thought they had accidentally not let it through. I didn’t even know Gavin worked for NASA at the time.

Naive. That kind of censorship stick with you. And I have no doubt they think they are winning hearts and minds over there.

As to your answer… Surely, it is your site, and you are entitled to prefer some people to others, for whatever reasons, right or wrong. If you really think that musings about drinking with prostitutes in seedy Manila bars or peremptory judgements about ours being the only existing civilization in the Universe pertain to the most visited scientific blog in the world, the choice is yours. What else can I do but smile?

I urge readers to have a look and get your own take-away. Clearly, Mr. Feht’s take-away misses the point of the article entirely, and my position is that he’s welcome to be as upset as he wishes about it, because while Mr. Feht has historically contributed little more than complaining here, essentially a feht accompli now, Mr. Eschenbach has opened his experiences and more than a few eyes with that story, along with many others. – Anthony

Thank you Anthony , you and a host of others have significantly changed the face of the climate debate for the better . I have recieved a free education and am appreciative of it . You and your moderators and contributing posters have much to be proud of .

It is not just left-wing climatology blogs that do this, so too do left-wing political blogs, the left-wing media blogs and especially the left-wing educational blogs.

If you post on these sites, especially the educationalists, and you challenge the established group-think, they will throw hate and bile at you by the bucket-load.

These criticisms are often infantile and easily shot down in flames. But as the bile and fury mounts over the weeks or months, you finally let go with an articulate, reasoned but caustic put-down of your own – and booof – you are instantly banned from the site.

There is nothing quite so intolerant and fascist, as a left wing liberal.

I don’t see too many pro-AGW sites that post all comments. At real climate, they posted a portion of my comment that made it seem like I was saying something completely different. My replies were all ignored. From what I’ve seen, even comment from pro-AGW commenters get ignored if they question the orthodoxy.

Mr Watts/Moderators
Apr-po nothing you may feel that the treatment of one David Bellamy is worthy of a wider audience. Together with David Attenborough he was one of the heroes of my youth in his heyday as a conservationist and TV personality in the Eighties and Nineties working with the BBC. But in 2004 he dismissed AGW as ‘poppycock’. He never worked for the BBC again and was dropped from The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts where he was president without being informed having worked with them for 52 years.

Below is a link to the London Mail on Line and an article dated 22 January 2013 entitled ‘The BBC froze me out because I don’t believe in global warming: Outspoken as ever, David Bellamy reveals why you don’t see him on TV any more’

Thanks for that article.
I have always been a fan of Bellamy and was wondering if he had retired.
This also explains why we now see so much of Richard Attenborough, the self absorbed global warming crusader, on television.
It seems it pays to adhere to the BBC dogma.
Heretics get burned at the stake.

“That said, if you can find a better place with the level of discourse we have, you are certainly welcome to go there. – Anthony”

The only other place I have found is smalldeadanimals.com. While not a scientific blog,Kate covers everything and anything,and allows any dissenting opinions without snipping,as long as they are to the point,and backed up with facts and/or links, and no ad hominems. A breath of fresh air,like WUWT, compared to most so called sites that call themselves neutral.

“..and received this recant by Al:
Well…did you happen to notice that those prominent scientists who dissent on AGW–most of them are NOT climatologists, but tend to be ohhhh, physicists, biologists, chemists, people who are NOT climatologists. There are a few, to be sure. But not many.
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“Climatology” isn’t a science in the way that Physics is a Science, in the way that Chemistry is a Science, or Biology is a science. “Climatology” is a mishmash of a number of different observational “natural sciences” that see something, record it, and try to tell a story to explain it. it makes no predictions that can be falsified, because as soon as a prediction is wrong they tweak an unknown parameter and claim it works again.

While observing and putting together a story that explains it can be useful, there can be hundreds of stories that may explain the same observations. Plotting some pts on a graph and extrapolating a line doesn’t make someone a scientist. Giving more weight to storytellers than people that actually understand how the natural world and science WORKS is a travesty. I trust the chemists and physicists more than I do someone that counts tree rings and makes grand pronouncements of truth, that are really speculation at best.

Tucci, that you commented on my comment is something of a consummation of a man-crush for me. Or woman-crush? 2nd-declension-masculine-plural crush.

I have no idea who you are when you’re at home, but when you’re online you’re one of the best writers ever (along with an old doc called Matarese). The bizarre thing is that you’re not just one of the best climate-debate writers since the invention of the climate in 1988 or whenever. That’s not what I meant. You and Dr Matarese have the best voices I’ve heard online on any topic in any period period. The fact that you happen to use your powers in service of this particular good cause is a telling and up-moralising coincidence.

Anyway, what I wanted to say was that [snip], I forgot what it was. Oh well.

PS I presume you’re two years younger than me—and you already write with the pen of a mean old angel. You suck, sirs!

At 1:58 PM on 27 January, in response to a post of mine in which I’d screwed up the hypertext mark-up, iskoob takes note of my inadvertent online multiple personality posting disorder as the result of a chronic I.D. Ten-T malfunction in my system’s wetware (yeah, I’m Rich Matarese; so what could I tell you?) and then praises my voice anent the great “We’re All Gonna Die!” man-made global greasing-and-grafting crusade.

Actually, I began to monitor this suppurating abscess on the collective tochus of the sciences in 1981, courtesy of old-fashioned snailmail correspondence with Petr Beckmann, then emeritus professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, chiefly on the basis of his book The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear (1976) and his delightfully acerbic newsletter Access to Energy.

You know what newsletters used to be, right? Kind of a Web log but printed on paper and you got it in an envelope once a month or so.

Dr. Beckmann knew my background and forwarded to me a boatload of reprints and commentary (his own included) with a “What the hell do you think of this nonsense?” invitation to offer opinion.

It can surprise no one familiar with my online rantings that I’m a science fiction fan, and that I consider mundanes – non-SF readers – not much more than stagnant eddies in the gene pool.

One of the regular elements on the programs of science fiction conventions back in the ’80s – particularly on the east coast – were the presentations of writer and professional science teacher Harry Stubbs (pen name Hal Clement) on “world building,” the speculative application of the principles of planetary astronomy to create the extraterrestrial (and interstellar) settings of “hard” science fiction stories.

As Hal Clement, he’d produced the novel Mission of Gravity (1954), one of the most notably successful efforts to present a story in a setting so outré as to make it impossible for human beings to function as protagonists, and the reader is obliged to identify with a centipede sea captain about twenty inches long, commanding a merchant vessel on an oblate planet where the acceleration field “varies between 700 g at the poles and 3 g at the equator.”

And his other planetological Gedankenexperimenten went on to get really strange after that. Mr. Stubbs was one of the best speakers and panelists to present at those conventions, and was so scrupulous in his recognition of fact-supported argument that in one manuscript reading he accepted my suggestion from the audience to correct that novel in galley to accommodate the phenomenon of cardiac tamponade in cases of traumatic ventricular perforation.

In “hard” science fiction, failure to acknowledge that which is known in the sciences – and to be aware of the “wriggle room” allowed by conjecture, hypothesis, and theory – will get a writer hammered. The general levels of scientific literacy among “hard” SF readers hits nosebleed-inducing altitudes, and both in reviews and at conventions, the critique has always been both fierce and sustained.

Its fair to contend that “hard” science fiction fen tend reliably to consider the “man-made global warming” hokum simply sucker bait for the mundanes. Trufen quit buying that felgercarb well before the IPCC first anacronymonated, and the few “squishy” SF writers who’d succumbed to it – like Ben Bova – are figures of considerable contempt.

But having been desultorily but for decades persistently interested in “world-building” and the reasons why and how conjectural planets might present challenges for the characters in scientifictional stories, I horsebacked a diagnosis for Dr. Beckmann to the effect that “These clowns have overstated the greenhouse gas effects of any possible man-made increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide by at least three orders of magnitude.”

Which is to say that their contentions were purest crap, and could never be anything other.

Subsequent attention paid since getting on the grand and glorious Intertubes in the late ’90s has given me absolutely no reason to revise that initial assessment of this concept’s flaming bogosity. Heck, in estimating their error at only three orders of magnitude west of “hysterical” I was actually cutting those climate charlatans a helluva lot more slack than they’ll ever deserve.

But enough of my experiences in the merry kiester-kicking of the catastrophists. So how far past your own sell-by date do you happen to be?

Whenever I bring up info on WUWT in a discussion with warmists, they go ballistic about the site but they never address the meat of the issue on factual terms.
Anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint on any topic is an ‘extremist.’

Whenever I bring up info on WUWT in a discussion with warmists, they go ballistic about the site but they never address the meat of the issue on factual terms.
Anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint on any topic is an ‘extremist.’

Moreover, these Warmerbruder types are never willing to specify why or how the content of Mr. Watts’ Web log is (or should ever be considered) objectionable, much less “extremist.”

If WUWT is ever and anon unreliable and/or deliberately duplicitous, you’d think that these climate catastrophe caterwaulers would have specific page and comment URLs memorized for ready recapitulation, quotations drawn and set for hot-button insertion from their FAQ files, wouldn’tcha?

And yet if you ask these guys for page, paragraph, and line, you either get “[chirping crickets]” or the banhammer. Not uncommonly both.

Hrm. Or are they still alleging that Mr. Watts and his cadre of contributors are all in the pocket of Big Oil, or members of the Kochtopus’ vast retinue of think-tankers, PR flacks, and scandalously paid-by-the-post Internet trolls?

@Tucci78
When I link or reference WUWT I’m getting more replies with “thanks for the link” or “appreciate you directing me to that website” than in years past. The AGW alarmists are still trolling in good numbers and they always decry WUWT as propaganda, but the tide has turned in my observations.

… since we seem to have the choice between fascist/corporatism or totalitarian in present day governments. Both of course are run by the same set of thugs.

Sometimes these ‘posts’ look straight off MJ mag or Huff Post even … you do realize who owns a majority of stocks (issued by corporations and held by private individuals, who vote said stock) do you no not? You do realize also how elective offices work in this country?

One would not like to think that comprehending the actual functioning of ‘the market’ or government as being forever slightly beyond Gail’s level or reach … the answer then lies in education, awareness; verily, a better educated and voting public (and market!)

….nine of the ten hottest years measured since 1880 have been in the last decade.

1. They haven’t been rising during the last decade, as the warmist models predicted, which suggests the climate sensitivity is less than they think.

2. In 1880 we were climbing out of the depths of the Little Ice Age, the coldest period in 10,000 years. It lasted for centuries. Naturally we’re setting “instrumental” record highs now after 140 years. We were hotter for centuries during the Medieval Warm Period and the ice caps didn’t melt or sea levels rise much then.

_Jim says:
January 27, 2013 at 2:39 pm
… you do realize who owns a majority of stocks (issued by corporations and held by private individuals, who vote said stock) do you no not?….
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And there is where you are DEAD WRONG. Stock used to be owned by individuals who voted the stock but that is no longer the case. Take for example Monsanto. Monsanto is 85% owned through mutual funds and the mutual funds vote the stock not the people who put up the cash. For example the Johnson family owns/controls Fidelity, Magellan fund and several others and therefore THEY not us vote a sizeable chunk of stock. Heck most people haven’t the foggiest idea of what stocks their money purchased.

WASHINGTON — A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power, and point out the worldwide financial system’s vulnerability as it stood on the brink of the current economic crisis.

A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich did a physics-based analysis of the world economy as it looked in early 2007. Stefano Battiston and James Glattfelder extracted the information from the tangled yarn that links 24,877 stocks and 106,141 shareholding entities in 48 countries, revealing what they called the “backbone” of each country’s financial market. These backbones represented the owners of 80 percent of a country’s market capital, yet consisted of remarkably few shareholders.

“You start off with these huge national networks that are really big, quite dense,” Glattfelder said. “From that you’re able to … unveil the important structure in this original big network. You then realize most of the network isn’t at all important.”

The most pared-down backbones exist in Anglo-Saxon countries, including the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. Paradoxically; these same countries are considered by economists to have the most widely-held stocks in the world, with ownership of companies tending to be spread out among many investors. But while each American company may link to many owners, Glattfelder and Battiston’s analysis found that the owners varied little from stock to stock, meaning that comparatively few hands are holding the reins of the entire market…..

As usual you have not bothered to do you homework while I have nor do you ever back up your flaming. (Hows the job at the bank going?)

Dr. Beckmann and Harry Stubbs, two wonderful people. I spent a most memorable evening listening to Harry and Issac Asimov roast Dr. Anthony Lewis (physicist & SF author) on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday.

Harry and Tony had done nuclear experiments at White Sands. While driving away from the experimental site before the bomb blew, Harry had a tendency to pull back on the steering wheel when over taking another car since he learned to fly before learning to drive. Tony twitted him at the roasting about this quirk.

I urge readers to have a look and get your own take-away. Clearly, Mr. Feht’s take-away misses the point of the article entirely, and my position is that he’s welcome to be as upset as he wishes about it, because while Mr. Feht has historically contributed little more than complaining here, essentially a feht accompli now, Mr. Eschenbach has opened his experiences and more than a few eyes with that story, along with many others. – Anthony

Mr. Watts, I think that a cheap word play on your readers’ last names is below your dignity.

Calling for readers’ support in hunting down a person who had guts to disagree with you is also a not very dignified strategy.

It would be below my dignity to argue with your other angry and unconsidered remarks.

Suffice it to say that I have contributed to this site many times, long before ribald Mr. Eschenbach appeared as a poster here, and received positive feedback from readers, publicly as well as privately (you may recall that you yourself made one of my posts “a post of the week” a while back).
REPLY: Fair enough, but your ongoing complaint themes about Dr. Svalgaard and Mr. Eschenbach aren’t going to result in their suspensions from WUWT, so my advice for the path forward is to concentrate on contributing to the dialog henceforth. – Anthony

Watts up with blocking my comment directing you to a report from 1981 showing that repubs knew climate change was a serious threat? Your censorship proves who you really are. Come on Anthony, keep the dialog open, at the very least. Let your readers see the whole sorry mess. http://Www.buckyworld.me

REPLY:Well for one thing, it is off-topic, though I doubt given your history here you will truly understand what that means. I agree, your website is a whole sorry mess, and your whole purpose here is to drum up traffic for it while you refuse to engage in debate or answer questions. Your lack of respect for people here, the continual calling people ‘deniers” etc is noted, and that’s what gets you in trouble and why your comments trying to get people to visit your blog aren’t welcome here.

Imagine if we started using “dumb blonde” labels about you. Perhaps now you’ll see why your use of the term “deniers” is not welcome – Anthony

At 5:10 PM on 27 January, Gail Combs offered me the unsolicited pleasure of realizing that I’m not alone in my personal remembrances of Petr Beckmann (a merrily enraged refugee from the Soviet occupation of his homeland, and adamant opponent of socialist tyranny in the marketplace as well as in the sciences) and Hal Clement (whom I will always remember in the Atari-era ’80s taking inordinate joy in showing me his first efforts to “paint” with the ghodawful computer graphics programs available to those of us with home computers running 8-bit CPU chips).

Harry and Tony had done nuclear experiments at White Sands. While driving away from the experimental site before the bomb blew, Harry had a tendency to pull back on the steering wheel when over taking another car since he learned to fly before learning to drive. Tony twitted him at the roasting about this quirk.

Well, in all fairness to Col. Stubbs, the wheel of an automobile is rather inordinately like unto the control yoke of a Consolidated B-24 bomb truck, and I understood full well that wrestling those Davis-wing’d monstrosities from the pilot’s seat gave one habits on the controls better suited for the operation of bulldozers than sports cars.

The link in your referenced article goes to a ‘unknown file type’ not to a .pdf, so I cannot open it to check what it says.

But – as a general observation – I imagine that a big entity like the US government gets many hundreds of reports a year to consider. A remark on page 35 of just one of those doesn’t of itself constitute prima facie evidence of a grave crime if it was ignored or overlooked.

Watts up with blocking my comment directing you to a report from 1981 showing that repubs knew climate change was a serious threat? Your censorship proves who you really are. Come on Anthony, keep the dialog open, at the very least. Let your readers see the whole sorry mess.

Not that its possible to conceive of this Web site’s operators (or most fervent frequenters) being uncritical partisans of the Rotarian Socialist right wing in our permanently incumbent “bipartisan” Boot-On-Your-Neck Party, any proof that the Red Faction clowns had given the “climate change” hysteria a pass “from 1981″ is Mr. Ravasio inadvertently providing his political enemies a kind of praise rather than damnation.

Those dictating Republican policy on the preposterous demonization of anthropogenic CO2 in the ’80s had dismissed this allegedly “serious threat” as yet another letie-luzer “Liberal” lunkhead scheme to destroy industrial civilization for the political advantage of our National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP) – and also, of course, to enrich themselves at public expense.

Doubtless their motivations were nakedly political (“Never give them bastids an inch!”), but talk about the proverbial stopped clock showing the correct time of day more or less by accident….

Mr. Ravasio, haven’t you yet realized that the attitude toward the political party which maintains the utterly corrupt and thoroughly gelded “Suntan John” as its leader in the U.S. House of Representatives is, among many of us skeptical of your beloved “We’re All Gonna Die!” climate catastrophism (emphasis on the “man-made” aspect), essentially that of H.L. Mencken?

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

Your censorship proves who you really are. Come on Anthony, keep the dialog open, at the very least.
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Pat Ravasio thinks that she can use this blog to drum up business for her own website by posting such drive-by spitballs. She never engages in dialogue but simply pastes spitballs like this on the thread.
So Pat, clean up your act and quit using the d-word, respond to comments and criticisms, and take your complaints of censorship where they belong: sks, RC, Tamino, Connelley and crew.

ONE Million comments! And all approved! That’s one heck of a work load.

If you had to average 5 minutes per comment (I’ve read many hundreds in the years I’ve been coming here and many take much longer than five minutes to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest), you are talking of an elapsed times of nearly ten years!

Just shows what a great job the mods do here. Well done Anthony.

[Nah. You give us too much credit. Most of us mods can read a whole comment in 5 – 20 seconds … 8<) Mod]
[But doing the spell check takes a bit longer. Mod]

A valuable summary document with some of my own skeptical questions and concerns, which exhibits for me why I find the open minded probing at sites like WUWT more helpful than the rabid beat-downs preferred by the RC type echo chambers:

Congratulations to Anthony and his merry crew of volunteer moderators.

While some posters may have an axe to grind on moderation, etc., the
large majority appreciate the quite light moderation here. My impression
has always been that if you have something to contribute and express
yourself in a civil way, your comments will get through.

At 5:10 PM on 27 January, Gail Combs offered me the unsolicited pleasure of realizing that I’m not alone in my personal remembrances of Petr Beckmann…
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We still have a stack of ‘Pink Newsletters’ stashed in a filing cabinet. Great stuff. I loved Petr Beckmann’s challenging Ralph Nader? to a televised match where Petr would match him gram for gram with Petr eating plutonium and Nader eating caffeine.

We lost a really great man when he died. I am glad Art Robinson could take over but it is not the same.

We still have a stack of ‘Pink Newsletters’ stashed in a filing cabinet. Great stuff. I loved Petr Beckmann’s challenging Ralph Nader to a televised match where Petr would match him gram for gram with Petr eating plutonium and Nader eating caffeine.

We lost a really great man when he died. I am glad Art Robinson could take over but it is not the same.

Dr. Robinson is a nice guy, and articulate as the dickens, but Dr. Beckmann was one of Jonas Ingram‘s “tough sons of bitches,” and even in his final days he refused to be whipped by the disease that was killing him.

No matter how many times he got knocked down, he didn’t quit trying to get up again.

I even dared to believe we had been given, in tucci, a new Matarese (the biggest compliment I could think of).

All this from your writing style.

Yeah, well, that’s not so comforting when you recall how they got Ted Kaczynski.

Er, if any of las warmistas suddenly start spontaneously detonating or anything curious along that line, you guys will remember that my ethnic group doesn’t do things like that. Much. Our style is more traditionally to keep on patting such people on the back until small holes appear between our fingers.

– sad because there’s one less angel of death walking among us than I thought

– proud of this spectacular validation of the stability, reliability and (let’s face it) overall exquisite correctness of my taste in literature

– relieved that I don’t have to envy you for being a Wunderkind on top of everything else. (I’m two years older than I thought you were when I thought your screen name included your birth year.)

Console yourself. The only Wunder in my life comes most mornings when I awaken to find that la sposa has again cocooned herself in all the bedclothes, leaving me in speculation on life and death to the effect that “If I’m in hell, how come its so cold? And if I’m in heaven, how come I gotta pee?”

I wish I’d had time to keep up with your writings. University takes up too much of it.

(I bet that’s enough of a clue for you: what am I studying?)

So excuse my ignorance: are you still wasting your mind in the Swiss Patent Office of family practice? Healing the sick when you should be slaying the undead?

In which case, give up your day job! Please. The times need you.

Just last year the larynx of one of my guardian angels was silenced (via the oesophagus).

I was sure the deep, dirty wound his passing left in the world of letters would never heal.

But YOU know something even he never managed to grasp.

How science works!

And now, in these moronic tempora, when science is daily raped and traduced in every land, you selfishly indulge the profession of helping people who come to your rooms, asking for help?

For shame! Lol.

:-)

By the way, if you know much about sport, then you understand two things (one of them useless, to be sure) that even Hitch never did.

He was quite open about the twin lacunae of which he was aware.

Interestingly, he always forgot to admit “…and Spanish.”

But if only you’d written los warmistas, Dr Matarese, you’d be ahead of my dead archangel by a further (trivial, to be sure) point!

Dr Matarese, if you’re still haemorrhaging hours a day in a GP clinic, I implore you: be a good Samaritan, stop Helping People, and just write. As destiny demands.

(Here’s an amusing phenomenon that’s puzzled you too, I bet: when I decided to take up the double-snaked staff myself, a few years ago, I could never get over how much my friends admired the ideal of “helping people for a living.” The economic premises alone are mind-boggling! I finally just asked them for the brutal truth: “Are you saying, all these years I’ve wasted in IT… I’ve been hurting people for a living?” Lol.)

Yes, had the same experience as many readers here. Comments on threads are many times better then the post, or do clarify the post.
You may agree or disagree but also learn something. What does one learn when he is insulted and his answers no longer appear? Well, my learning was to look in other places for the information.
It took some time to discover WUWT which is now my anchor for climate questions. And I learned a lot. Thank you ! Keep on the good work!